Tag Archives: Fox News

Obama spokesman Bill Burton tangles with Fox anchor Megyn Kelly over Fox’s “fair and balanced” coverage. Burton is made of the awesome. Check out Kelly lying about a recent Rasmussen poll when she claims that a majority of Americans feel that Fox is the least biased network. The poll actually said that a majority of Republicans felt that way. Uh, ...

Real Clear Politics has the complete transcript. Here’s what David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun had to say: Talk show host Sean Hannity and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin came together for what Fox News Channel promoted as an exclusive interview. But, in truth, what viewers saw was a carefully staged display of partisan political theater — from the executive-office ...

Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes went on Fox News yesterday to urge John McCain to start gay bashing if he’s going to win in November. On which campaign wedge issues McCain should use, Barnes said: “In particular, gays in the military for one. We know Barack Obama is for allowing gays in the military, and Bill Clinton tried to do, ...

Via Pam Spaulding comes word of the latest racist outrage perpetrated by Fox News: calling Michelle Obama “Obama’s Baby Mama!” Unfuckingbelievable. Oliver Willis: So here’s the thing (because during this campaign I’m apparently learning that we black people have our own secret code and hand signals so this stuff has to be explained like you are speaking to a child ...

This is completely disgusting and over the top, even for Fox News. “When he pushes that baby out, I hope it’s the worst experience in his life. I hope the blood vessels pop in his eyes. I hope it is SO painful.” Watch Fox New’s Red Eye cast as they wish that Thomas Beatie commits suicide. There are too many ...

Karl Rove started his new gig at Fox News yesterday. Rove has been contributing opinion pieces to The Wall Street Journal, which also belongs to Murdoch’s NewsCorp, and will debut on the television network with live coverage on Tuesday of the biggest day of the presidential primary election season, Fox said on Monday. Talking Points Memo described Rove’s new job ...

Fox News’ John Gibson offered a weak apology yesterday for his cruel remarks about the death of Heath Ledger after an avalanche of angry emails and an action alert from GLAAD. Obviously, he’s not really sorry, judging by that typical “if I offended anybody” crapola.

Ugh. Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.” Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you” from Ledger’s gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, “Well, he found ...